CHARLESTON, SC — As a strange, yellow light emerged in the sky, the sun was starting to set on the Boston Celtics training camp excursion to The Citadel.
CHARLESTON — This time last year, Jayson Tatum was in the background. While most of the Celtics were finishing up training camp and preparing for the season, Tatum spent most of his free time in the weight room, looking in from the outside.
CHARLESTON — When Mike Conley was a little kid playing basketball, all he worried about was making sure that his 10-year-old teammates were having fun.
Day 168. I started keeping track after waking up inside CelticsBlog writer Grant Burfeind’s body several months ago. I figured a precise timeline would be useful if we ever figured out how to reverse this.
The regular season is important, but NBA legends are made in the playoffs. More specifically, it's the Finals where the all-time greats have built their otherworldly reputations.
There is a moment between seasons in sports, a springtime that occurs even in fall, when the previous season has been set firmly in the past and the upcoming season hasn’t started.
Everybody loves everybody in training camp. The minutes are still available, the losses haven’t piled up, and nobody has spent a fourth quarter wondering why he’s glued to the bench.
CHARLESTON, SC — As rain continued to douse the South Carolina coast, the Boston Celtics embarked on day two of their three-day stint at The Citadel. While the deluge might have cut into some golfing plans, the Celtics are right on track with their preseason plan.
A strong night on the court quickly turned into a very different kind of headline for one Žalgiris Kaunas guard. He had just helped his team pick up a comfortable domestic league win when an off-court incident put him under scrutiny.
CHARLESTON — On October 4th, the city of Charleston, South Carolina recorded 3.64 inches of rain, breaking a 133-year-old single-day record (2.51 inches in 1893).
Typically, the path to the NBA for most players is to spend at least a season in college to get high-level basketball and important development under their belts.
CHARLESTON, SC — People have been saying nice things about Baylor Scheierman a lot lately, but one compliment stands out above the others. “The other day, Baylor, I think I got like four offensive rebounds in one possession, and I just said, ‘I like him,’” Mike Conley said last week .
Joe Mazzulla looked at Jordan Walsh and asked him to explain the Celtics’ standard to Paul George. Yes, that Paul George. Walsh told John Karalis of Celtics on SI that he and George were on the same side during a drill when Mazzulla told him to speak up.
CHARLESTON — For the first time in nearly a decade, the Celtics are hosting a portion of their preseason training camp on the road: in Charleston, South Carolina, at The Citadel.
Following the trade that sent Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Paul George and picks, the Boston Celtics endured weeks of relentless scrutiny.
Paul George’s contract that he signed in 2024 has been criticised for the last few years, but he might actually be worth more. George left the LA Clippers in 2024 to sign a four-year, $212 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, despite not playing at the highest level.
The assumption around the NBA has been fairly easy to understand. The Celtics acquired Paul George in the Jaylen Brown trade, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they intend to keep him around.
As the Boston Celtics deconstructed their 2024 championship core during the 2025 offseason, their center rotation became the team’s biggest question mark.
Someone at Celtics media day did the math, and nobody involved enjoyed the result. Mike Conley was drafted fourth overall in 2007, and his rookie teammate Chris Cenac Jr.
Payton Pritchard played a huge part in the Boston Celtics’ inspired run last season. The Celtics were not expected to be competitive, let alone advance to the playoffs as the second seed in the Eastern Conference, but Pritchard, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White proved everyone wrong.
A week after their president of basketball operations said that breaking up their longtime star duo was "inevitable," the Boston Celtics faced life after Jaylen Brown as they kicked off the preseason at their media day Monday.
Jayson Tatum entered the 2026 Celtics Media Day with a lot to think about ahead of the new season. Boston is starting a new chapter after a major offseason change.
The Boston Celtics are about to enter the 2026-27 season with a totally different look after moving on from Jaylen Brown and bringing in Paul George. Jayson Tatum is expected to return as an MVP-caliber star after missing most of last season, and Derrick White is still in his role as one of the league’s better two-way guards.
The Boston Celtics entered last season expecting a step back. Instead, they finished 56-26 and secured the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Jaylen Brown carried much of the scoring burden with Jayson Tatum sidelined for most of the year.
One could argue that 16 of Boston's 18 championships came from a trade or a draft pick that could have gone very wrong. Some of those moves paid off within a year, and one took more than a decade.